Motivational Quotes

Luck

Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Best Quotes about Luck

Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.

Kroc, Ray

The Goddess Fortune is the devil's servant, ready to kiss any one's ass.

Blake, William

Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

Winfrey, Oprah

When God throws the dice are loaded.

Proverb, Greek

Substance is not enough, accident is also required.

Proverb, Italian

Luck seeks those who flee and flees those who seek it.

Proverb, German

Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise.

Gracian, Baltasar

Luck is being in the right place at the right time, but location and timing are to some extent under our control.

Josefowitz, Natasha

I believe in luck. The harder I work the luckier I get.

Shoen, Sam

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Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: hard work -- and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.

Ball, Lucille

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Luck is infatuated with the efficient.

Proverb, Persian

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It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Men of action are favored by the Goddess of luck.

Clason, George S.

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Luck's always to blame.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?

Jean Cocteau

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I am a great believer in luck and the harder I work the more of it I have.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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Watch out when you're getting all you want. Fattening hogs ain't in luck.

Harris, Joel Chandler

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In short, luck's always to blame.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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I think the harder you work, the more luck you have.

Thomas, David

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Luck can often mean simple taking advantage of a situation at the right moment, It is possible to make your luck by being always prepared.

Korda, Michael

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Shallow people believe in luck and in circumstances; Strong people believe in cause and effect.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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There is no chance, and no anarchy, in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.

Sher, Barbara

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The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.

Harry Golden

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The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.

Pollock, Channing

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You don't just luck into things as much as you would like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it is friendships or opportunities.

Bush, Barbara

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Luck is the idol of the idle.

Proverb

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Better an ounce of luck than a pound of gold.

Proverb, Yiddish

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People who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others have idled, have persevered while others gave up in despair, and have practiced early in life the valuable habits of self-denial, industry, and singleness of purpose. As a result, they enjoy in later life the success often erroneously attributed to good luck.

Kleiser, Grenville

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The harder you work, the luckier you get.

Player, Gary

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Chance corrects us of many faults that reason would not know how to correct.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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All of us have bad luck and good luck. The man who persists through the bad luck -- who keeps right on going -- is the man who is there when the good luck comes -- and is ready to receive it.

Collier, Robert

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What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient but restless mind, of sacrificing one's ease or vanity, or uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully.

Cherbuliez, Victor

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Luck marches with those who give their very best

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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Fortune's a right whore. If she give ought, she deals it in small parcels, that she may take away all at one swoop.

Webster, John

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Luck generally comes to those who look for it, and my notion is that it taps, once in a lifetime, at everybody's door, but if industry does not open it luck goes away.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it. The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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Luck is what you have left over after you give 100 percent.

Langston Coleman

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I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Luck is a very good word if you put a P before it.

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The harder I work the luckier I get.

Goldwyn, Samuel